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Posting stupid and/or hilarious pictures.

This strategy will absolutely increase user engagement for your social media profile. People today have the attention span of a squirrel, and will pass over anything that does not immediately catch their eye. That’s why it has to be visual. Text is boring and takes time to see what the main topic is. People literally will not spend 10 seconds on reading a bit of text and deducing if it is a topic that interests them. It has to be instantaneous, big, and bold.

People enjoy laughing. It feels good. It releases endorphins in your brain, giving you pleasure. So, you have to make them laugh. Otherwise, they’ll continue to seek pleasure from another source. We are animals. We like feeling good.

For example: hardly anybody will read this post, but if I had posted a stupid GIF or meme, it would have tons of hits. Why did I even take the time to write this? That remains a mystery… Modern marketing is radically different, due to technological advancements and reduced attention spans.

It’s like the old saying “don’t judge a book by its cover.” In today’s world, the book and the cover are one and the same.

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In in instant, both people would immediately not just know every thought and action each other has ever had. They would actually have experienced it (as far as they know).

Now, imagine that same technology scaled large enough to “sync” every single person on the planet, for 60 seconds.

Instant Global Awakening.

For geeks, think of:

Telepathy (aka Professor X).

Vulcan Mind Meld.

It’s the same thing, but instead of cool but impossible magic powers (Trust me that would be “Plan A,” but my extensive research of trying to grab the remote control using “The Force,” isn’t looking very promising at the moment.

However, we can invent… and as impossible as this idea sounds, it could be done, with immense R&D, a bottomless pit of money, and a lifetime.

Most (or all) of the people starting the project would never live to see the result, but it would give your life purpose. We’d be building heaven, but never get to go…

What about our kids?

…and theirs?

Randomly thought of that… the same effect is happening with the gradual extinction of privacy, and our ability to instantly communicate.

It’d still be faster, but then you run into:

Is it wrong to force everyone to do something once, if it means putting an end to so much pain? Who gets to make that decision?